"If I can be totally honest, it's not a lot of guys you get impressed by. Actually, it's no one else but him. From the bench, to see what move he makes -- you're like, 'I wish I could do that.' Sometimes you sit on the bench and just think, 'wow,' and you look over to the other bench and they sit there and shake their heads, too. He has great, great skills. I'm probably not going to play with another player who has the kind of skills he has." Mikael Samuelsson on Pavel Datsyuk

Goes to show that stats aren't everything. Shots 28 to 22, scoring chances 15 to 14. No part of that tells the story of how the game has panned out so far, Canada in the USA zone for a significant length of time and controlling the game as a whole overall. It feels like Canada has doubled up on everything so far from the pace of things.

3rd period on, come on boys get a goal here or it's a battle for bronze.

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